Blue Beacon Capital

Blue Beacon Capital is one of the leading, private investment banks serving companies in the communications and technology industries.

We represent middle market and growth stage companies on mergers, acquisitions, exclusive sales, restructurings, private placements and fairness opinions.

We provide high impact strategic and financial advice to senior management and boards of directors always recommending ideas and strategies that we would pursue ourselves were we acting in management’s capacity.  We have an established reputation as a trusted advisor helping to devise and execute transactions that enhance shareholder value. We combine a broad network of relationships with deep sector knowledge and seasoned strategic advisory expertise to deliver a superior, senior level of service for clients who value experience, judgment, candor and insight.

Our senior team is comprised of proven, battle-tested investment bankers who formerly ran large industry groups at prestigious Wall Street firms.  Collectively, our team has completed hundreds of transactions representing over $75 billion of value over the past 15 years across the communications and technology sectors.

Our team has represented such companies as Bell Canada, PSINet, Teleglobe, Adelphia Communications, Savvis, Colt Telecom, Intermedia Communications, XM Satellite Radio, Digital Island, TRICOM, Focal Communications, Mpower Communications, AppliedTheory, Teligent, Speakeasy, New Global Telecom, NextWeb, TMC Communications, Excel Telecom, IDT, GLOBALINX, and a wide variety of smaller private companies.

The volume of business Blue Beacon Capital receives through referrals as well as follow-on assignments from existing clients attests to the success of the Firm.

For more information about our services, please contact Roger Valdovinos at 609.514.8500.

Silver Oak Advisors

Silver Oak Advisors’ founders bring over 40 years of Big 4 and Industry property tax experience. Silver Oak was formed to provide taxpayers in need of State and Local Tax (SALT) assistance. We are former Big 4 and industry experienced professionals with specific industry and/or property expertise.

Most firms are forced to use internal firm personnel for all engagements regardless if use of the professional is in the best interest of the client. Silver Oak recognizes this problem and has a team of the best SALT professionals with expertise in your industry and in the markets throughout the U.S. who work directly with our Directors to handle your SALT issues.

Today, the most sought after professionals in our business work for themselves in smaller practices and boutique law firms. Silver Oak works together with these firms to supplement our professional’s expertise in order to provide our clientele with the “best in class”. This gives your company the right professional with the expertise in your industry and in the markets throughout the U.S. where you need the assistance the most.

We are working Directors allowing us to provide a higher level of service at a cost effective rate, passing on the savings to you.

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Ben Bronston - Telecom Lawyer

Ben Bronston is a nationally recognized expert in the field of telecommunications law and regulation. For over 20 years, he has developed an extensive knowledge of legal and regulatory issues affecting telecommunications service providers, agents, VARs, TEM consultants, carriers, resellers and providers of new technologies, such as hosted PBX and other cloud services. He has provided advice and counsel to many of the most highly regarded agencies, consultants and service providers in the industry and was recently selected as the winner of the Telecom Association’s 2010 Member’s Choice award in the telecom legal category. Ben has served as a director for several telecommunications companies, including most recently a triple-play provider of satellite television, high-speed Internet and telephone services. Ben actively represents clients in the areas of agent agreements and negotiations; vendor agreements; and complex telecom transactions. Ben has the distinction of representing several of the industry’s largest master agents and cutting edge service providers. He is also a regular contributing author on channel issues for both Channel Partners Magazine and Channel Vision Magazine. He was a co-founder of a private venture capital fund dedicated exclusively to the communications industry and is a former member of the Channel Partners Advisory Board. Bronston is a summa cum laude graduate of Tulane University’s A.B. Freeman School of Business and Tulane Law School.

Ben Bronston has earned a reputation as being one of the most respected lawyers specializing in the telecommunications industry. Ben’s broad-based corporate and legal background, combined with extensive experience in representing telecommunications and technology companies, enable him to offer a unique combination of talent and experience to his clients.

For more information, please visit www.telecomlawyer.net or contact Ben Bronston at 713-778-1000 or bbronston@telecomlawyer.net.

HotLava Systems

HotLava Systems is a privately held company engaged in the design and manufacturing of innovative, server class multi-port Gigabit and 10-Gigabit Ethernet adapters. Founded in 2003 and based in Oakland, California, HotLava’s customers include industry-leading innovators of network security solutions and Internet service providers throughout the world.

By reducing or eliminating congestion at the network interface, HotLava network adapters enable today’s powerful servers and workstations to deliver more productivity through increased port density and higher throughput. Based on world class components and drivers from companies such as Intel, every HotLava network adapter card is natively supported by virtually all operating systems.

HotLava network adapters are ideally suited for space-limited network appliances and servers, providing the maximum port density and network bandwidth required by demanding I/O intensive applications such as:

• Server virtualization
• Unified Threat Management appliances
• High availability, failover, backup, and redundancy
• Bandwidth intensive file transfer applications such as video and graphic design environments
• Traffic generation for server, switch, and router performance testing
• QoS load Balancing
• Link Aggregation
• Ethernet switch and server consolidation

With their high performance, low cost-per-port, and ease of installation, HotLava products offer the best value in multi-port Gigabit and 10-Gigabit Ethernet network adapters.

For more information on HotLava Systems, please visit http://hotlavasystems.com or call 1.855.HOT.LAVA (468.5282).

You may also reach HotLava Systems via email at hotinfo@hotlavasystems.com.

StrataScale

StrataScale offers innovative dedicated server and cloud hosting solutions to meet the IT infrastructure needs of businesses of all sizes.  StrataScale cloud computing environments are built on a world-class data center, with web portal access to a UI to manage and scale all of your resources in minutes.  Every StrataScale hosting environment is custom and scalable – backed by guaranteed uptime, features financial-grade security, and delivers 24×7 engineering support.  What StrataScale clients avoid is CapEx and IT infrastructure headaches, and what they get is agility, latest technologies, and peace of mind.

StrataScale solutions are enterprise-grade, affordable, highly scalable, very secure, and super reliable: great for businesses of any size, age, industry, geography.  StrataScale clients include a mix of large enterprises and SMBs, and a number of VAR channel partners.  Sectors served include health care services providers, game developers, E-tail companies, and SaaS developers.

Do you want to know more about The Cloud?  Please go to Free Cloud Hosting Guide to receive a cloud whitepaper.  How can we help you?  Please go to StrataScale.com, call us at 866.955.4519, or send an Email to jrichard@stratascale.com.

Global Convergence Solutions

Global Convergence Solutions (GCS, Inc.) is the leading provider of Next Generation Solutions that are reshaping how carriers acquire, manipulate, utilize and distribute information across networks in real-time.   The company, based in NJ, is a pioneer of Routing & Rating solutions for the telecommunications marketplace.

Their customers include: Vonage, KDDI, One Communications and dozens of others both here in the U.S. and internationally. These carriers are using the GCS solutions to centralize their network intelligence which allows them to optimize their network performance from both a margin and traffic perspective.

The company offers its products and services in both a SaaS based and licensed based delivery model. To learn more about GCS and how its products and services are helping carriers please click here or contact them directly at: +1.732.853.0510.

Schipul - The Web Marketing Company

The Schipul Vision

To Connect and Organize the World’s People. Do Good.

Schipul – The Web Marketing Company is a Houston-based Web marketing and Web design company.  Founded in 1997, Schipul has grown into a team of passionate client advocates and social technology enthusiasts.

We are passionate about what we do and are fortunate to be able to live our vision every day – connecting people to communities online and watching them grow. Want to know how we do it? Learn more about our Web design services, Search Engine Marketing services and Social Media Consulting!

The Schipul staff consists of talented design and communications professionals, a customer service-oriented support team and experienced programmers. You can read more about our Partners here.
Schipul has created a software product called Tendenci™ that allows users to manage and edit their own Web site with powerful membership management tools, built-in search engine optimization (SEO) and great reporting features. Learn more on www.tendenci.com.

Are you a Social Media geek? Then be sure to visit our company Blogs at blog.schipul.com,blog.tendenci.com, www.thesemblog.com.

Telecycling

Telecycling has 18 years experience in the Telecommunications Industry. Telecycling is a member and sponsor of The International Association of Electronics Recyclers, The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries, The Basel Action Network, The Mobile World Conference, RCA, and CTIA. They are fully compliant with the MPC Environmental Protection Policy, and are ISO 9001, 14001, and 18001 certified. They are actively pursuing certification in Environmental Stewardship.
Since 2003, Telecycling has recycled more than 40 million pounds of product. A few household names include, Nokia, Motorola, Ericsson, Siemens, and Nortel Networks products. Telecycling is fully insured and trained to meet all standards of the state, federal, and OSHA safety regulations.
Telecycling is a global leader, with more than 13 countries across the globe involved in a Telecycling project.
When you’re dealing with fast-growth technology, you want to be working with a company that is on the leading edge, but one that also understands telecommunications systems as they have evolved. With extensive experience covering all phases of the equipment life cycle, Telecycling applies this knowledge to three primary functions:

• Acquisition of obsolete telecommunications equipment
• Re-Sale of any re-usable products
• Recycling of electrical & electronic waste

When recycling provides you the most value, Telecycling handles every detail from end-to-end, including but not limited to BTS, MSC, BSC, microwave equipment, power supply systems – from all manufacturers, such as Nortel, Lucent, Ericsson, Siemens, Nokia, Alcatel, ADC Kentrox, Huawei, ZTE, etc.

From…

• the logistics of pick-up and transport
• to removing identifying labels
• to separating components
• to shredding all materials
• to separating elements

…all within strict environmental standards.

We are interested in obsolete and excess Telecom Network equipment or electronic equipment. We are currently working with many companies with great success.
Types of equipment we are looking for:   Any obsolete, excess, damaged, network equipment that you and any sub companies (Markets). Examples: Access Network, Fixed Network, Mobile Network, Switch, MSC, BTS, BSC Microwave, PC’s, Servers, All old Cabling, Power Equipment, Generators, Phones, Phone Booths, Internet Lines eq.,  Microwave Dish, Central office Networks, any type of equipment…etc We are willing to look at any technical assets of yours.

Visit www.telecylcing.net for more information or contact Corey Clark at (404) 812-1739 or Corey@telecycling.net.

GeoResults

GeoResults is the leading telecom business/consumer demand and infrastructure database provider to over 100 communications clients in the U.S. market. Using world class business, residential, carrier, infrastructure, and telecom databases, GeoResults separates itself from its competition by having its telecom professionals assist clients to produce anything from full market analysis reports to detailed targeted customer lists.

GeoResults uses its proprietary business and telecom databases, along with mapping analysis tools, to develop market assessments and rank customer prospect lists that are unique to a company and its network assets. GeoResults’ Business, Residential, and Telecom databases include voice/data bandwidth estimates, telecom spending profiles, and serving wire center identifications for over 16 million individual businesses and over 110 million households.

Using GeoResults databases, clients have the ability to:

• Identify, locate and rank the best addressable business and residential prospects for specific telecom services.
• Assess and rank new geographic, customer, and product marketing segments for new revenue opportunities.
• Understand competitive profiles in any U.S. market to develop and refine competitive positioning strategies.
• Develop network facility, switching, and market deployment plans based on potential business and residential opportunities.

GeoResults’ telecom trained professionals have been helping clients grow revenue and profitability since 2001.  Our extensive experience allows us the ability to recognize business challenges and provide information that meets or exceeds our client’s needs in the midst of a constantly changing industry.  For further information, please contact Peter Clare at (201) 505-4801 or visit GeoResults on the web at www.georesults.com.

Focused Business Solutions

Focused Business Solutions, LLC (“FBS”) has been a provider of cost recovery services since 1998.  Over the past 12 years, FBS has helped businesses recover over 150 million dollars for its clients, who are primarily telecommunication providers.  FBS performs its services on a contingency fee basis.  Using its years of specialized, unique experience in the industry, FBS is able to recognize previously unidentified overpayments of tax and recoup such overpayments on behalf of its clients.  FBS’s recoveries often represent valuable cash flow that its clients had not previously anticipated.  Once FBS identifies an overpayment, FBS’s team works with its clients to ensure such overpayments do not occur in the future, resulting in significant future savings.  FBS’s typical engagement includes reviewing the past three years of a client’s accounts payable records.  FBS’s uniquely qualified team of professionals are able to perform their review of accounts payable records with minimal disruption to its client’s staff.  After reviewing a client’s accounts payable records, FBS then prepares claims and represents its clients before state administrative boards to recoup any overpayment identified.  Throughout the course of FBS’s engagement, FBS covers all expenses including travel to the client’s headquarters.  FBS’s only compensation is a percentage of overpayments successfully recovered.  FBS currently represents telecommunication providers nationwide.  For a free consultation or more information please contact Anthony Gulotta at (717) 541-1280, ext. 224 or visit FBS on the web at www.fbstax.com.